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Euronews - A plane skidded off the runway at Sochi's airport and caught fire, an airport spokesperson told Russian news agency TASS on Saturday.

The aircraft, which was coming from Moscow, was carrying 164 passengers and six crew members.

A plane with hundreds of tourists on board made an emergency landing in Russia after one of its engines caught fire soon after takeoff.

All 202 passengers plus crew members were safely evacuated from the Red Wings Tu-204 at Ufa in the Ural mountains.

Tourists on flight number 808 filmed the left-side engine as it sparked and was engulfed in flames.

Russian rescuers found Dec. 26 the first parts of the Syria-bound military plane that plunged into the Black Sea, as officials said they do not suspect terrorism as the reason for the crash that killed 92 people on board.

NASA has revealed that a huge meteor crashed into the Atlantic ocean earlier this month releasing energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT.

The meteor exploded on February 6 at 14:00 UTC in the air 620 miles (1,000km) off the coast of Brazil, with the force equivalent to an atomic bomb, but no one noticed it.

Russian police on Jan. 11 said they were probing a cheeky stunt by a group of passengers on the Moscow metro who stripped down to their underwear as part of a worldwide flashmob.